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PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… The main building, as well as some of its outbuildings, date from the last quarter of the 18th century, but subsequent additions have given it an overlay of…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a leader…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… practitioner and politician: born 14 May 1898; Minister of Natural Resources and Local Government, Nyasaland 1961-63; Prime Minister of Malawi 1963-66,…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika … away on Sunday. "It is with deep sadness that we…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… first padrÁƒo, or stone cross, at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast. It is South … African soil was Bartholomew (or…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
… religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1685, inspired a great deal of resentment…
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Here he announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African States (CONSAS) as a programme to re-establish the regional dominance of the…
PlaceGreen Point Common
… Common was vested land, which was granted to the City of Cape Town in 1923 for public recreation and sport fields. … Your stadium is home to Green Point…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the … the Defiance Campaign, the most dramatic non-violent act of…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed in…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several political activists in the Eastern Cape, died in … 1982, two student activists who…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… 10 October 1928 INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL Workers Union of Africa (I.C.U.) NATIONAL COUNCIL … 53, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. Dear Roux Dr. Norman Leys,…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… I REFER YOU TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to … receipt. In the letter referred to above I informed you of the…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… State Theatre was built by Performing Arts department of the Provincial Council of the Transvaal. [i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as … to design and…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… Situated roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains for game hunting. Rooipoort is a ……
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… 1707 a young man on horseback raced through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting "Victorie! Victorie!" - a sign that … men were released from their contracts…
EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… Following the onset of the Soweto Uprising the previous day, Parliament met in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of opposition, Colin…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… Paving the way for the end of Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence or First Transvaal War), a provisional … armistice was agreed upon by General…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
… With the wind of change powerfully blowing in South Africa, the National Party under the leadership of young but politically experienced F.W de Klerk, called…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of Botswana for damages caused by the July 1985 South African Defence Force…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… an invading military force. Consequently, towards the end of the 18th century, the area saw the construction of a number of fortifications, first at the foot…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and … beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley,…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of Molapo, a son of…
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… The South African Archive is made up of records pertaining mostly to Governance and Laws Enacted, … now been fully refurbished and restored as the…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great…